1790263 - Message compose window - quoted text is black text on black background

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Mark Barnes [:WoofGrrrr]]

Attachment: Compose window showing black text on black background even with Dark theme

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0

Steps to reproduce:

102.2.2 64-bit windows 10

1. Open message
2. Click Reply
3. Make sure Options -> Sending Format -> Only Plain Text is selected (to make sure it's not something in HTML in the original message that's causing the problem)

Actual results:

Except for links (blue), layout lines around the original message, and a few pieces of text, everything is black text on black background.

This includes anything I try to type into my reply

I was using a Theme, so, thinking that might be the problem, I switched to the Dark theme that comes with TB. Same problem. (Noting also that the original message was STILL black on white when using the Dark theme! Dark theme doesn't seem to apply to the message window???)

(on step 1. the original message was okay. White text on black - before switching to Dark theme.)

Expected results:

White text on black background or something like that

Comment 1

[Mark Barnes [:WoofGrrrr]]

I was mistaken. When I type something, it actually IS visible. Sorry.

It's the QUOTED MESSAGE that is impossible to read.

And the TITLE of this report should indicate that it's Message Compose Window for a REPLY that's the problem.

I have tried several suggested ideas for userChrome.css that are supposed to change the quoted message colors but they are not working.

Comment 2

[Mark Barnes [:WoofGrrrr]]

I worked around and "enhanced" the problem with the following in my userContent.css. I doubt it is the optimal way to do things -- I copied it from the Internet -- but it seems to work!

/* Quote Colors */

blockquote[type=cite] {
  margin-left: 20px;
  padding-left: 5px;
  border: 2px dashed red ! important;
  color: red ! important;
  background: #D0D0D0; ! important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote {
  border: 2px dashed green ! important;
  color: green ! important;
  background: #C8C8C8; ! important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote {
  border: 2px dashed yellow ! important;
  color: yellow ! important;
  background: #C0C0C0; ! important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote {
  border: 2px dashed blue ! important;
  color: blue ! important;
  background: #B8B8B8; ! important;
}
blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote {
  border: 2px dashed orange ! important;
  color: orange ! important;
  background: #B0B0B0; ! important;
}

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, do you still see this issue when using the latest version?
What information can you add to clarify the steps to reproduce this issue?

Comment 4

[Mark Barnes [:WoofGrrrr]]

102.9.1 (64-bit)

I can no longer reproduce this particular issue. Thank you.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thank you for the update